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I can confim that my ATI 5870 does not work on my hackintosh. I read earlier in the post that you can get at least 1024x768 res if you set the graphics enabled to 'No' . I changed this setting and i still am having the same problem. Am I doing something wrong?

To be more specific, I load up and get to the Chameleon boot menu, I choose to boot mac os x and the screen goes blank, and the graphics card's fan fires up to 100% (very loud infact).

I have an old x1900gt that does work so I will be investigating the post at the link below to sort out a temporary dual graphics card solution.

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If anyone does get this card working please post. I have been thinking of upgrading my video card and now I am having second thoughts.

I managed to get the 5870 working. I just realised, if i have my [url=&quot;http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/&quot;]#####[/url] CD inserted (that runs chameleon) it doesnt work.

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I managed to get the 5870 working. I just realised, if i have my [url=&quot;http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/&quot;]#####[/url] CD inserted (that runs chameleon) it doesnt work.

i have an HD5830 but I have the same problem (black screen, blinking monitor light after chameleon)

how did u manage to get screen back up again?

I already removed [url=&quot;http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/&quot;]#####[/url] and placed SL disc in there as per the instructions.

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With me [url=&quot;http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/&quot;]#####[/url] 2.0 and [url=&quot;http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/&quot;]#####[/url] 2.0 didn't work for chameleon, installed that and had to install a newer version of chameleon.

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i have a ati 5850 twin frozr and it will boot one screen at least no problem, but no hardware acceleration, im going to try to get double screen at least through some cable downgrading but is anyone working on a home brewed kext for this? or are we all just waiting?

for mac currently i swap out a gfrc 9800gt which is pretty much 1/20th the power lol but hey it works when i need accel for now...

i can still exchange it, but until nvidia comes out with N470GTX twin frozr im not gonna go out and do the work, btw, somone got GTX470 normal version working, i downloaded the package but i dont remember off the top of my head where the post is. so if youre going for 400 series, id go for 470, second best in benchmark so far so im guessing youll be ok

That looks like something that we can use to easily mod the card to run in native resolution. I will have a go at this after work tonight and report back. I will still be interested to hear JJJohan's process though...

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Hmm, you should just be able to burn the iso to a dvd and boot to [url=&quot;http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/&quot;]#####[/url] Supported.. and you should get a menu. If that fails then you can try to use Win32 Imager to mount the image to a usb flash drive. For my tower I did needed to use two USB drives. A small one to boot to [url=&quot;http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/&quot;]#####[/url] Supported, and a second for snow leopard since it didn't like my DVDRW drive on either the jMicron controller or my Intel SATA controller which has my windows 7 64bit install but in RAID0 on 4 HDD's.

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YESYESYESYES!!!!! Radeon 5xxx drivers in the new Mac Mini version of 10.6.4! Netkas already has them and is working on getting them working! If you have a Radeon 5000 series card then get your butts over there and lend a hand in testing!

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YESYESYESYES!!!!! Radeon 5xxx drivers in the new Mac Mini version of 10.6.4! Netkas already has them and is working on getting them working! If you have a Radeon 5000 series card then get your butts over there and lend a hand in testing!

We're almost there!

Great, I've headed over to macrumours and have offered to lend a hand with testing and will report back here.